Sunday, December 2, 2012

Ghost Lamp Shade...

I did it!.. I completed a project that I'd bought the bits and pieces for MONTHS ago... actually almost a year ago now... the right room has just come together in the house to hold such a specimine... did I mention we just furnished the front living room... FINALLY!?. it's been in flux ever since we've moved into the house... NOW it has two completed wingbacks... and a big wooden piece of furniture thing with some baskets in it... and a lamp I found at Winners... anywhoot I digress… ghost lamp shade...

Got this beastly lampshade at the ol' VV boutique… still wrapped in plastic… i cut the plastic off… then the fabric… turns out there was some plasticky paper around the top and bottom metal bands of the shade...

I peeled those off too… then gave it a quick scrub down with a scouring pad… to remove any loose bits of glue…

Then to the basement we went… and I looked through the few cans of spray paint that I have down there… I knew I wanted it to be matte black… I had some BBQ paint down there… I used that and sprayed the shade… the bulb holder… and the metal bit that holds the shade to the lamp...

The lamp itself is a weathered old bronzy colour and luckily the lamp body shape is very similar to that of the lamp I found at Winners… I was temped to paint the lamp body too but it turns out that it works well left as is...

I made a quick trip over to Restoration Hardware and grabbed up a fancy tungsten quad coil bulb… not too bright... and neat to look at… pardon the lack of photos in the frames on the wall… those are coming… tomorrow… I will have photos of the finished room once it is fully sorted… it is still coming together and being decorated for Christmas...

Balls everywhere… Christmas balls… I have another bowl that I have to dig out of the basement with lion heads on either side… I think it'll go great with this deer head dish...

I found some designs online for the chalkboards… and tried my hardest to keep the writing neat... I'M SO EXCITED HOW IT TURNED OUT… the ones online are printables… but I replicated in chalk...

I have to fix the stars on this one… they look like jacks… I'm not too pleased with them… and the N could use some tweaking too...

Christmas tree star… Chris picked this one out at last year's Spruce Meadows Christmas Market…

It has been so Christmassy out lately… check out the frosty snow on the branches today… amazingly beautiful...

And supa cold… yesterday I stayed inside and put up the tree and begun the decorating… and ventured out quickly for that fancy lightbulb…

...at this point when I was writing last night I fell asleep completely with the laptop on my lap and hands on the keyboard… yesterday was quite an action packed day at a seminar run by the amazing Erin Skye Kelly about setting goals and achieving them… More on that later...

I can't go without a couple shots of the furbabies… they're doing well and haven't been in the christmas tree… or banging ornaments off of the tree… all is well… they stuck close all day Friday while I was decorating… one in each chair asleep in the front room while I decorated the tree… such sweet little fur muffins… and right now Oliver is laying under my right arm and across my left arm and wrist making it slightly difficult to write… but he's purring like a chainsaw so I dare not push him off!..

Today will be filled with activities that help me to reach my goals!.. again more on that later when I get my thoughts down about the amazing Erin Skye Kelly… I want to get some final decorating done today as well… and then some house cleaning because this place ain't gonna clean itself!.. and we have to get the house in shape for next Friday's Annual Christmas Shindig…

Can't wait!.. what are you getting up to this Sunday?..

xo

Lacey

I'm getting back on the link party train… and starting this Sunday with:

Thanks Lindsay!.. that's what I was thinking but didn't put into the right words!.. thank you for typing it out for me!… INDUSTRIAL… I'm sitting here looking at the lamp right now across the room… it is very industrial yet still feminine!.. xo

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